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In an age of virtual offices, urban flight and planned gated communities, are cities becoming obsolete? Moshe Safdie argues in this book that, as crucibles for creative, social and political interaction, vital cities are an organic and necessary part of human civilization.
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This book explores how psychoanalysis and architecture can enhance and increase the chances of mental 'containment', while also fostering... Læs mere
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In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition? this book pursues four themes: Place: Whose Nation, Whose City?; People: Whose Indigeneity?; Colonialism: Whose Architecture?; and Time: Whose Identity?
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This book explores how the human body was an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through the years.It considers... Læs mere
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Constructing Building Enclosures investigates and interrogates tensions between the disciplines of architecture and engineering as they wrestled with technology and building cultures that evolved to deliver structures in the modern era.
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Through a collection of 13 essays, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectural workers.
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This book investigates how international air terminals organize passenger movement and generate spending. It offers a new understanding of how their architecture and artworks operate visually to guide people through the space and affect their behaviour.
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This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg-Holm, a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic, cybernetic, and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930´s.
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Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. Shadows... Læs mere
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Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture provides a forum for historians of the visual arts, archaeologists, and architects to reflect upon embodiment, spatiality, science, and architecture in pre-modern and modern cultural contexts.
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Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importance of two influential figures on architectural history – Walter Benjamin and Gottfried Semper.